A day after Kansas defeated North Carolina, 72-69, in the men’s national championship game, the producer of the court for the men’s Final Four told ESPN that the spot on the floor where Tar Heels forward Armando Bacot rolled his ankle did not have structural problems.
Bacot, who finished the game with a double double of 15 points and 15 rebounds, rolled his already injured right ankle in the final minute of Monday’s game. In several slow-motion videos that circulated around social media, it appeared that a piece of the floorboard flexed slightly under Bacot’s foot moments before he re-injured his right ankle.
However, Jeff Krejsa, the vice president or marketing and strategy for Connor Sports, said to ESPN that “there were no loose floorboards” on the court.
